Yep, but dont use it much due to the way its been tiled in - very hard to get in and out. Only recently started using it for little miss because she's too heavy to hold in the shower. Got one for the new house though

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had one and only used it about 3 or 4 times in the 18 months i was there. I always felt guilty filling it with water.

We had the heat pump it was good because if we did fill it the heat pump meant you could stay in there long enough to make it worth while. For one date i dragged TV in there and we watched a movie, 2 hours is a long time for the water to go cold with out a heat pump.

I would save the cash and put it towards an outdoor spa if i was doing it again, we had one of those at my last place and it got used HEAPS.

we ummed and arrhed about it, asked family who had spas in there houses and decided to use the space in the ensuite and make a double shower, we are on tank water so dont really have the water to waste on using the spa that often.We did thin about making the bath in the main bathroom a spa but was going to cost another 2k plus extra buttons for the boys to press and play with.

Acrebuild - our kids surprisingly havent touched the control panel on ours (after 15mths). The 1yr old does like to pull the plug completely out when it is in the raised position - but that is as much as the three kidlets have done.

Probably helps that DS1 doesn't like the noise of the pumps too much so no chance he would turn it on. They do however love the coloured lights being on - quite often that is requested during bubble baths LOL.

My parents have an outdoor spa, they use it pretty much every day without fail (dad has to be reminded that he still needs to shower even though he had a spa). They had a spa in their ensuite of the old house and never used that.

I think for them, their outdoor spa is always full and always hot & ready to go, whereas the ensuite spa was a hassle filling up and wasn't long before their water went cold - they saw it as a waste of water for just the two of them. Each to their own though.

I think for them, their outdoor spa is always full and always hot & ready to go, whereas the ensuite spa was a hassle filling up and wasn't long before their water went cold - they saw it as a waste of water for just the two of them. Each to their own though.

Thats exactly how i feel, on our property our water is too precious, I think we would use the outdoor spa alot though is we had one of those

Does a pump have to be installed pre-plaster stage or can be installed after?

Depends where the pump is going (though of course anything can be done with enough time, effort and money).

We're currently having an issue with building our new home with regards to the spa pump. All through the design stages we expected the pump to be tucked away under the spa with access externally from the deck. Just before building starts we find out there's no room to physically locate the pump under the spa. So now we have to rejiggle cabinetry to steal space from the vanity adjacent to the spa. I want to minimise that loss of course. Problem is the builder has set out the boxing for the spa and now wants to proceed with cabinetry and tiling etc, with the actual drop-in of the spa being last. I'm saying they can't do that because until the spa is in place we can't tell exactly where the pump will go. Builder says "doesn't work that way". Not happy!